On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:11:52 +0200, Christoph Zwerschke <cito at online.de> wrote:
>Thanks for the link, Grig. I wasn't aware of the py lib so far. The
>possibility to create fixtures at the three different scopes is exactly
>what I was looking for.
>>Anyway, I think it would be nice to have that feature in the standard
>lib unittest as well. It should not be too hard to add setUpOnce and
>tearDownOnce methods in addition to setUp and tearDown. Actually, I am
>wondering that there doesn't seem to be any development progress since
>unittest was included in the standard lib of Python 2.1 in August 2001.
>I had expected that such an important module would be continually
>improved and maintained. How come? So few people using unit tests? Or do
>most people write their own testing code or use py.test?
I can answer this question, at least for myself.
I use regression testing a lot, and have done so since before
Python's unittest was written.
Originally I just used my own code, which didn't use classes just
functions that called other functions. later on I decided to have a
look at unittest. I found two problems with it.
Firstly it didn't
stop when it reached an error, it continued doing the rewsr of the
tests. This wasn't what i wanted: most of the time when a test
fails, I want to look at what's happening. I don't want unnecessary
information about other tests, I want to concentrate on that one
thing.
Also, the log of information sent to stdout about each test was less
informative than I wanted (and which my old system provided).
So I had a look at unittest to see if I could modify it to fix these
problems. However, I found the code to be rather complex and hard to
understand so I decided it would be quicker to write my own testing
framework. Which I did.
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